[Mageia-discuss] [Poll] What are your top requirements?

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/1/28 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:
> On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:19:45 +0100
> Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> > (and let's not talk about "Modern GUI": for me Gnome 2 is as modern as
>> > Gnome 3 and KDE 4)
>>
>> "modern" in this context means "opposed to the traditional GUIs".
>
> "traditional" is undefined. Is Gnome 2 traditional? What about Gnustep?
> And Cinnamon?
>
> For example, I'd like to see Cinnamon in the next Mageia, not because
> it's traditional or modern, but because it's for me the only reasonable
> compensation for losing Gnome 2.
>
>> > So, I've answered the poll, but my real answer is the following: if I
>> > had to use a distribution with only 3 qualities out of all these, I
>> > would be an unhappy user.
>>
>> Looks like you did not read the initial posting where I explain what I
>> mean with "top requirements". Of course I could have allowed for 5 or
>> 10 votes, but my intention is to find out the most important features
>> a distribution must have, otherwise you would not touch it.
>
> Well, what I'm saying is that "top requirements" is not how I function,
> and I don't think it's how most users function either.

No problem if it is not how you function. Your opinion about other
users is your opinion.

> This poll sounds like you might end up concluding "ok, our users value
> features over stability, so we're gonna make a crashy distro with many
> features". Surely you understand how unreasonable that is: even these
> users which said they values features will still get angry about the
> crashes.

If you want to draw such unreasonable conclusions, fine. Don't expect
me to do the same.

-- 
wobo